PL-100T00: Microsoft Power Platform App Maker

Course Description

This course will teach you how to build apps with low-code techniques to simplify, automate, and transform business tasks and processes using Microsoft Power Platform. This course may contain a 1-day Applied Workshop that is in preview. This workshop will allow you to practice your App Maker skills by creating an end-to-end solution to solve a problem for a fictitious company. The solution will include a Microsoft Dataverse database, Power Apps canvas app, and Power Automate flows.

Audience Profile

The App Maker builds solutions to simplify, automate, and transform tasks and processes for themselves and their team where they have deep expertise in the solution business domain. They have basic data modeling, user experience design, requirements analysis, and process analysis skills. The App Maker creates and enforces business processes, structures digital collection of information, improves efficiency of repeatable tasks, and automates business processes. The App Maker uses the Maker tools of Power Platform to solve business problems. They may use advanced features of Microsoft apps and third-party productivity tools. The App Maker is aware of the capabilities and limitations of available tools and understands how to apply them. The App Maker is self-directed, and solution focused. They may not have formal IT training but are comfortable using technology to solve business problems with a personal growth mindset. They understand the operational need and have a vision of the desired outcome. They approach problems with phased and iterative strategies.

Design business solutions (20–25%)

Create a high-level design

Identify existing data sources needed to support a business solution
Describe the expected user experience for targeted devices and describe the differences between Microsoft Power Platform app types
Describe the expected logic and steps that a process will execute
Create a high-level structure for a new data source

Identify Microsoft Power Platform components

Determine the required Microsoft Power Apps app type for a business solution
Determine when to use Microsoft Dataverse for Teams
Map a problem domain to Microsoft Power Platform tools
Identify options for implementing business logic
Describe connectors
Describe uses cases for cloud flows and desktop flows
Describe use cases for chatbots

Design the user interface (UI) for a business solution

Identify opportunities for component reuse
Select UI elements for canvas apps
Identify the model-driven forms and Dataverse views that are needed

Design reporting and visualizations for business solutions

Select reporting options for business solutions including views, Microsoft Power BI visualizations, and dashboards
Define visualizations for Power BI dashboards
Define visualizations for model-driven dashboards
Define visualizations for canvas apps

Analyze and visualize data (10–15%)

Create and consume Power BI dashboards

Create a simple report from an existing dataset by using Power BI Service
Create Power BI dashboards from existing reports
Embed Power BI dashboards and tiles in canvas apps and model-driven apps
Share Power BI dashboards

Describe AI Builder models

Describe use cases for AI Builder
Describe differences between prebuilt models and custom models
Describe the process for training custom models
Use a model from within Microsoft Power Automate or Microsoft Power Apps

Create business solutions (60–65%)

Manage Microsoft Power Platform components during development

Create a publisher in Dataverse
Create a Dataverse solution
Export or import Dataverse solution
Export or import a canvas app or a cloud flow
Add existing apps and flows to a Dataverse solution

Create model-driven apps

Create model-driven apps
Create and configure Dataverse table forms
Create and configure Dataverse table views
Share model-driven apps with other users and groups
Create and configure model-driven dashboards

Create and manage canvas apps

Connect to data sources in canvas apps
Interpret App checker results
Manage versions of canvas apps
Publish canvas apps
Share canvas apps with other users and groups
Build canvas apps screens
Add canvas app assets and components to screens

Create screens for canvas apps

Determine when to use forms, galleries, button, labels, input controls, images, and custom controls
Configure UI elements
Implement Power Fx formulas
Implement collections and variables
Run a cloud flow from a canvas app

Configure Microsoft Dataverse

Create tables and table columns based on a data model
Link tables by using lookups
Describe use cases and capabilities of business rules
Create Dataverse business rules
Describe how Dataverse uses role-based access control (RBAC)
Add table permissions to existing Dataverse security roles

Create Power Automate flows

Describe types of triggers for cloud flows
Create cloud flows
Configure triggers for cloud flows
Configure flow actions
Test a cloud flow and interpret flow checker results
Implement conditional logic for a cloud flow
Create approvals and monitor the approval process by using Power Automate and Teams
Share cloud flows
Create a desktop flow for personal use

Create Microsoft Power Virtual Agents chatbots in Microsoft Teams

Identify use cases and capabilities for chatbots
Create a chatbot that uses topics and trigger phrases
Test a chatbot
Publish a chatbot

Basic data modeling, user experience design, requirements analysis, and process

analysis skills.

A personal growth mindset and are comfortable using technology to solve business problems.
An understanding of the operational need and have a vision of the desired outcome. They approach

problems with phased and iterative strategies.

This will be a virtual event hosted on Microsoft Teams. In the Microsoft Teams platform and sessions, your name, email address, or title may be viewable by other participants. By joining this event, you agree to this experience. 